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Chance the Rapper Will Release a New Project This Week

In an interview with the Chicago Tribune, Chance the Rapper reveals that his follow-up album to 2016’s Coloring Book will be coming out later this week. It also looks like his latest project will drop in conjunction with Saturday’s Special Olympics 50th Anniversary concert, an event that he’s producing and headlining, in Chicago. "I got that feeling when people do something that has a new feel to it," he said of his new body of work. "I'm excited for everybody to get that. It’s going to come out just in time for the Special Olympics."

During his recent appearance on Open Late With Peter Rosenberg, Chance delivered vague specifics regarding his solo work, confessing that he's juggling a number of tasks at the same time. Instead, he discussed getting in the studio with Kanye West to start working on an album, as well as divulging information on the progress of his project with Childish Gambino.

Chance says that when he was visiting Kanye in Jackson Hole, Wyoming "a few weeks ago," the two "casually" worked on two songs. While there, West tossed out the idea of working on a joint project. "We’re up in the mountains around these wild animals — it’s very different out there — and we got some music done, and then he asked me if he could do an album with me," he said. "I don’t know of a timeline on it yet, the trajectory of it, but he’s coming here to work on it some more. We’ve just started making it, but I don’t want to manipulate the situation and impose any time frame, because that can hinder you."

It's been morethan two years since Chance dropped his seminal, Grammy-award winningColoring Book, so you can understand why fans are desperately eager for a new project fromChano.

Late Monday afternoon it seemed as if the drought was over. Speakingto theChicago Tribune, Chance seemingly divulged that he will be releasing a newprojectin the coming days to coincide with the Special Olympics 50th Anniversary concert, which will be held at Chicago’s Northerly Island, an event that Chance will be both producing andheadlining.

Speaking about the new project, Chance remarked:

“I got that feeling when people do something that has a new feel to it […] I’m excited for everybody to get that. It’s going to come out just in time for the Special Olympics.”

Though Chance said that it would be coming this week, he didn’t give details on how it will be released or what streaming platforms it will end up on. Coloring Book was initially released on Apple Music, where it exclusively stayed for two weeks.

“I’ve never been against selling music […] Music has value. I put my music out there for free because I wanted people to see and notice it as a beacon for what I’m doing, in terms of how unorthodox I wanted my approach and my delivery of each piece of music to be. On the other side, it’s not really difficult for me to make music and deliver it to the fans, because there are so many more platforms now, a bunch of streaming sites. The bigger concern for artists now is navigating the legal issues of owning your music, your publishing, your distribution. It has been difficult for me to release music with artists who work with the majors.”

Well, at this time it's unclear what changed but Tuesday morning Chance tweeted "Sorry no album this week" and softened the blow by adding "def been in the stu tho."

Outside of this project that has no date, Chance has been hard at working creating music with Childish Gambino for their much anticipated collaborative album and also on another effort with Kanye West. Speaking on the latter of those projects, Chance revealed that he made some songs with Kanye while he was up in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

“We’re up in the mountains around these wild animals — it’s very different out there — and we got some music done, and then he asked me if he could do an album with me […] I don’t know of a timeline on it yet, the trajectory of it, but [Kanye’s] coming here to work on it some more. We’ve just started making it, but I don’t want to manipulate the situation and impose any time frame, because that can hinder you.”

It’s not the first time Chance has talked about doing something with Kanye. While he was on Open Late With Peter Rosenberg he said he was “gonna do a seven-track with 'Ye," a la Pusha-T, Nas, Teyana Taylor, and Kid Cudi.

Between Chance’s upcoming project and his collaborations with Kanye and Gambino, it seems safe to say that Chance is working to keep his fanbase fed. It's just a matter of when. Chance fans may have gotten their No 4 hats out prematurely but surely, he'll be ready to drop sooner than later right? Don't play with our emotions Chance!